THE Thesis required in History 5 must be handed in to-morrow.

PROFESSOR TOY'S reading will take place next Thursday evening.

THE President's Report was received by the Overseers last Wednesday.

THE Echo is stereotyping the obsolete jokes of the "Humors of the Day" of 25 years ago.

THE first chorus of the "oedipus" is printed, and makes a good-sized pamphlet. Several more are to follow.

PROFESSOR JOHN W. WHITE and Dr. E. L. Mark have been elected honorary members of the Pi Eta Society.

THIRD Senior Forensic, Second Division : "Are usury laws, in any form and in any case, expedient?" Due 8th of March.

MESSRS. CREHORE and Wendell, both of '82, will represent Harvard at the business meeting of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association.

"IT is strange that more attention is not given to boxing in College." - Echo oracle.

Yes, yes, strange, strange indeed!

THE winter meetings of the H. A. A. will be held in the Gymnasium on Saturdays, March 5, 12, and 19. There will be two Ladies' Days.

THE officers of the O. K. for the second half year are as follows : President, M. St. C. Wright; Treasurer, P. Evarts; Secretary, J. H. Adams; Librarian, H. L. Wheeler.

IT is rumored that the subject of the next Senior Forensic will be : " "Did the salt-pillar into which Lot's wife was turned contain sodium or nitric oxide?" References in the Library.

THE following are trying for the Junior crew : Babcock, Blodgett, Clark, Crehore, Cumming, Dean, Delaney, French, Goodnough, Hoyt, Luck, Manning, Perin, Perkins, Sherwood, Thacher, Towne, and Waring.

A LEADING oculist is quoted by a correspondent of a Boston journal as saying that he has more patients from the Law School at Cambridge than from any other source, so bad is the ventilation and the gas-heated air in the evening.

THE reception given by Professor Palmer to the actors and chorus of the Greek Play, was, it seems, only the first of a series of similar pleasant entertainments to be given during the year by the various professors interested in the production of "OEdipus Rex."

A NEW disease has made its appearance in the College buildings. Those afflicted with it have cramps in their fingers, and endeavor to remedy them by thumping away night and day on their pianos. The doctors give the name of musicomania to this new disease.

AT the next meeting of the Harvard Union, which takes place next Thursday, the question whether the Union shall establish a legislative branch will be discussed, instead of the regular debate. As the subject under discussion is very important, all members of the Union are requested to be present.

MR. F. D. MILLET, the distinguished artist of New York, whose lectures on Greek and Roman costume have been so well received in Boston, will deliver a lecture on Roman costume before the Philological Society, on Tuesday next, January 18, at 7.30 P.M., in Sever 11. All are invited to be present.

ON December 31, 1880, the first dinner of the Harvard Association of Western New York was held in Buffalo. Hon. E. C. Sprague, '43, presided, and twenty-five were present. A committee was chosen as follows : Holliston, and C. Sprague, '81, for Buffalo; Elwood, '74, for Rochester; Brandegee, '81, for Utica; and Williams, '80, for Syracuse.

IT is pleasant to observe that the new Bright Scholarships, five in number, each of $ 275.00, were assigned to Freshmen immediately after the Christmas examinations. The Scholarships now available for Freshmen at this early date are eight in number, against three of years past. This year one Matthews Scholarship was also assigned on the merit of the Christmas examinations alone.

THE Board of Overseers of Harvard College, at a stated meeting yesterday, concurred with the President and Fellows in appointing Sylvester Preiner, A. B., proctor; James Read Chadwick, instructor in Gynaecology, and electing William Gray, Henry J. Bigelow, and Thomas G. Appleton, trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts for one year. The President and Treasurer of the University presented their annual reports, and several reports of visiting committees were also presented.

REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS, D. D., has kindly consented, in accordance with the petition of last year, which has been seconded this year by the Christian Brethren and St. Paul's Societies, and many other of the students, to preach a course of four sermons during January and February, in St. John's Memorial Chapel. The first will be delivered next Sunday evening, January 16, at 7.30 o'clock. A part of the church will be reserved for students until 7.20, and it is hoped that there will be a large number present.